SUKKUR: (Imtiaz Hussain) Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO) on Monday held Session with Journalists on Trafficking in Person(TIP) and Migrants Law-2018 in a Local hotel of Hyderabad.
Journalists were sensitized over improved reporting on Human Trafficking as well as Human Smuggling.
Syed Kausar Abbas Executive Director of SSDO highlighted the Smuggling of Migrants, Woman Trafficking, bonded Labour and Human Smuggling.
Waqar Awan Consultant of SSDO said that there was a lot of different between the Human trafficking and human Smuggling and said that these are the different terms.
According to him the recruitment Agencies, Consultant Agencies and the Individuals are the main suspects to perpetrate in a such mess to by taking advantage of the Poverty and unemployment cheating to the vulnerable community in the plea of providing Jobs in Foreign Countries.
He said that Migrant smuggling is the procurement of the illegal entry of a person into a state of which the person is not a national or resident. He said that this mess reflect upon the resources,besides this Population rate and crime.
He elaborated that the Trafficking in persons (TIP) is a serious crime. TIP involves an act committed for the purpose of exploiting someone’s labour or services. Victims are compelled to provide their labour or services under circumstances which would be reasonably expected to cause them to fear for their own safety.
He said that Human trafficking takes place in every region of the world: Human beings are sold, bought and traded much like objects.
Zaigam Abbas a Columnist and anthropologist told a Session that Trafficking is a modern form of slavery.He said that Journalists can Play their Vital role to prevent the vulnerable community from a trafficking through information in context.
He said that Journalists should have to promote the Public Interests and said that survival can not be treated as Object.
He advised to focus on investigating reporting as well as research base reporting and said that Beings not merged in Thinks. He said that reporting should be based on One’s Initiative and matter of importance. He advised Journalists to use appropriate Data in reporting and refrained themselves from hiding the truth.
